"Mushroom space" of Quoc Khanh Farm

In Hiep Thanh commune, Lam Dong province, in recent years, many types of commercial mushrooms and rare medicinal mushrooms have appeared growing in houses with cold corrugated iron roofs and insect-proof mesh walls, creating an increasingly stable and growing income.

Precious medicinal mushrooms from Da Lat are successfully cultivated at Quoc Khanh Farm, Hiep Thanh commune.

Witnessing the mushroom farm

Entering the 250 ^m2 mushroom house of Quoc Khanh Farm in Hiep Thanh commune, which is harvesting at the end of the season to supply pre-orders, farm owner Nguyen Thi Linh said that this mushroom house has been harvested for more than 90 days, each day from 40 - 50 kg. Of which, most of the fresh mushroom products are consumed during the day; the remaining small part of the product is put into cold storage, supplying to customers in the province. Harvesting every morning from 6:30 - 7:30, carefully uprooting each mushroom bush by hand, then cutting off the roots, packaging half a kilo for wholesale and retail to distribution customers and direct domestic consumers. “Put mushroom spawn in rows in a cold metal roof house, set up biological sticky traps to attract and kill insects that “slip through the partition net”. Spray water daily with clean water pumped from a deep well underground. Take intensive care after a week and start harvesting continuously for up to 3 months before starting to produce new mushrooms…”, Farm owner Nguyen Thi Linh shared.

Similarly, the 200 ^m2 oyster mushroom house next door is entering the fourth month of harvest with a peak day of more than 50 kg. After harvesting this oyster mushroom crop, Quoc Khanh Farm switched to growing the hydrangea, hydrangea, ruby, and golden mushrooms in turn, then rotated back to growing oyster mushrooms. A stable rotation of 2 crops of edible mushrooms per year in all 8 mushroom houses of Quoc Khanh Farm, each mushroom house has an area of ​​about 200 ^m2 . Accounting for an area of ​​100 ^m2 to start growing mushrooms in Hiep Thanh commune with investment capital for mushroom houses, equipment, spawn, and labor, totaling about 110 million VND. The first mushroom crop, after 6 months of planting, caring, and harvesting, yielded about 3.6 tons, multiplied by the average price of 30,000 VND/kg, resulting in a total revenue of 108 million VND. Thus, if edible mushrooms are produced according to technical requirements and linked with the chain, after 6 months, the initial investment capital will be almost fully recovered.

Closed production process

Especially with Da Lat red chi medicinal mushrooms, Quoc Khanh Farm boldly invested in research and trial production on an area of ​​100 ^m2 with 7,500 bags of spawn in 2024. In the beginning, 70 - 80% of the number of bags of red chi medicinal mushroom spawn were successfully cultivated, and the harvested products brought to the market were consumed quickly at prices dozens of times higher than those of food mushrooms. According to scientific documents in the world that Quoc Khanh Farm has collected, Da Lat red chi mushrooms are a special type of red lingzhi, containing many precious active ingredients, many uses in improving overall health such as: increasing resistance, supporting immunity; stabilizing blood pressure, reducing cholesterol; reducing stress, improving sleep, sedating; beautifying skin, anti-aging; stabilizing blood sugar; supporting liver and kidney function, detoxifying and anti-inflammatory; supporting cancer treatment, inhibiting the growth of bad cells in the body...

Up to now, thanks to the addition of technical solutions suitable for the growth characteristics of Da Lat red chi mushrooms at an altitude of 800 - 1,000 m in Hiep Thanh commune, Quoc Khanh Farm has closed the process from seed production to care techniques, harvesting, preliminary processing and packaging to bring to the market, the output meets the requirements with a "harvest" rate of 95% or more of the cultivation bags. Accordingly, it is estimated that with 200 ^m2 of Da Lat red chi mushroom growing area, after 4-5 months of care, a single harvest of about 500 kg is achieved, equivalent to a revenue of nearly 350 million VND. It is expected that next year, Quoc Khanh Farm's Da Lat red chi mushroom house will continue to increase its area along with the food mushroom house of all kinds in Hiep Thanh commune. Thereby expanding the production and consumption chain with farmers in Hiep Thanh commune and neighboring communes and wards of Lam Dong province.

Source: https://baolamdong.vn/khong-gian-nam-cua-quoc-khanh-farm-384446.html